From 'I' to 'We' to 'He'

The whole world and the objects therein are interrelated by the bond of love. It is love that binds the human race together. The world cannot exist without love. God is love and resides in the heart of every one. Love is the natural possession of every human being. Love is the fruit of the tree of life. There are certain impediments to overcome before you enjoy the tasty fruit. First you must remove the skin and rind covering the pulp inside, and also cast off the seed. Similarly the fruit of love is also covered by the thick skin of ego. You must peel off this skin of 'mine and thine'. You can then taste the sweet fruit and its nutritious juice. With pure love, you must establish unity with the Divine. The path of love is the straightforward road to realise the Divine. Vedas describe God as, "Raso Vai Saha" – the Supreme Sweet Essence. Endeavour to progress in this journey of life from 'I' to 'We' to 'He'.

How can we make the experience of that bond of love? If the whole world is interrelated by the bond of love, how can we realize it? He is always telling the truth, but we don't have the experience of it. I was meditating regularly already for some time and I got a book, in that book about Sai Baba was some vibuthi and I put it on my tongue, my meditation was not great at that time and too many problems with the people around me. The experience was about God in the heart, there was a feeling in that vibuthi and it went directly towards the heart and it was love and it felt like it intensified and there was a tiny small form in the heart and it was God. From that moment on there was like a voice singing in the heart and it said, 'God exists' and it was such a joy and great to think one day I would be there.

The whole world and the objects therein are interrelated by the bond of love. It is love that binds the human race together. The world cannot exist without love. God is love and resides in the heart of every one. Love is the natural possession of every human being. Love is the fruit of the tree of life. There are certain impediments to overcome before you enjoy the tasty fruit.  

He is telling us that certain impediments need to be overcome, before we enjoy the tasty fruit. We have to remove the skin and cast off the seed, we have to peel the skin of 'mine and thine'. When I went to the ashram it felt amazing, but it was at the outside and not the same as at the inside and somehow I had to get aware of it. We have to experience the truth of it and that is only possible if we realize that there is only love. At the ashram we had a lot of opportunity to get rid of the mine and tine, but it was not that easy because it makes all types of resistance coming up in the mind and I was constantly meditating. 

With other words he is as well telling us that we cannot get the experience of the divine in the heart if we don't get rid of the skin of 'mine and thine'. About the human values he said, if we want to make the experience of pure love, we have to establish unity with the Divine. 

How does it work? If we want to be able to experience 'pure love', we need three things, we have to accept truth, we have to have right action and we need to understand peace, if we have those three things, truth, right action and peace, we are able to make the experience of pure love. And we know it doesn't work when there is the skin of 'mine and thine'. If we learn about truth, we also realize we are in the mind and there is a difference between a mundane life in the mind or if it is about self-realization. We have to know the truth, one is true, the other is untrue, that is a big difference, but at the beginning we don't know how to make that difference. But know with meditation that truth is pure consciousness and to experience is we need to transcend the mind, therefore, we sit down and meditate. And that part is already right action. We can see there is a connection between the truth and getting aware of truth and that we are in the mind and we cannot realize the truth on the mind level, we have to go beyond he mind, therefore, we meditate, that is now right action and by meditating we realize that it also takes care of peace and more people meditate together, more is the purifying influence on the level of consciousness and that takes care not only of our mind and stress, but also the accumulated stress in consciousness, as the world is all interrelated, there is no difference, everybody counts, and that is how we understand peace and already we have the three things, truth, right action and peace and all we need to do is sit down and meditate. That is why with meditation there was the experience of pure love.

I went to India it was because of that divine presence in the heart and I expected it to go on the same way, but it changed, I had to learn to get there in listening to him. And with job and work and family life I had often the feeling there was just not enough silence and in the situation to be able of getting again aware of it and it took much more time of getting there again, but there was a time everything felt like love only, like the universe was full of love and sometimes I was meditating on the divinity in the heart and once I put Baba there and it expanded to the hole universe.

And we had to learn to listen and that kind of the biggest difficulty as it seems, people don't really listen we all think we know love, but that is not pure love, our experience of love is not the same. We know we have to accept truth, we have to accept right action and we have to understand peace and if we are in the mind and that is true, we need to go beyond the mind to experience truth to be a witness. Right action is going beyond the mind so right action is to meditate and that is certainly one way of right action to go beyond the mind and to understand peace. We should meditate every day it takes care of stress and tension and keeps us in a state of truth or sathva, what is the same after all. If we try to understand it without the experience of it we are on the level of imagination and that is the mind.

If untruth is different from Atma and the mind, right action is to remove the fog that is between the truth and what we see it only the mind and the fog and we have to get rid of it and one way we for sure know how to remove the fog is by meditating.

Part of accepting truth and seeing it the way it really is, for getting there we have to accept right action, that means we have to follow the master, fight to the end and finish the game and we need to understand peace. 

Only when we have those three things, truth, right action and peace, we are able to make the experience of pure love. 

It was still peaceful and one-pointed with Swami at the ashram, otherwise, there would not have been the Darshan with the 'I am that', that is truth and right action and peace and the possibility of the realization that God is everywhere, but not in our imagination and in the mind, but in the realization that there is only 'that' and 'I am that' and 'all are that', that is how God is realized as omnipresent as the same self, there is no difference and that is not the same as imagining God being everywhere. 

It means there is a difference between imagination and realization, one is in the mind, the other goes beyond the mind, it is the man coming in our dreams to awaken that shows us in the insight or in the dream that 'all are that', it is not our mind, it is the man coming in our dreams to awaken and whatever we imagine or don't imagine in our mind, is the mind and not self-realization. 

First you must remove the skin and rind covering the pulp inside, and also cast off the seed. Similarly the fruit of love is also covered by the thick skin of ego. You must peel off this skin of 'mine and thine'. You can then taste the sweet fruit and its nutritious juice. With pure love, you must establish unity with the Divine. The path of love is the straightforward road to realise the Divine. Vedas describe God as, "Raso Vai Saha" – the Supreme Sweet Essence. Endeavour to progress in this journey of life from 'I' to 'We' to 'He'.

We have to find the supreme sweet essence. The journey is by the man coming in our dreams to awaken, we realize by his grace and in dreams that we are the 'I am that' and why in dreams, because the dream state reflects the truth and we know that the Atman, reacts, reflects and resounds. In the dream stage we find the reflection of it. The 'I am that'  'you are that' and therefore, 'I am that', it is a reflection like in a spiritual marriage. So that awareness needs a spiritual husband to be reflected as the same 'I am that' or something similar, I call it spiritual husband, because Baba asked often, where is your husband, that maybe the reason for it. Without reflection no awareness of the 'I am that' it is the reflection of being the same, that means from I to We, 'we are that', it is not alone the I, but it is together, you and I am that, 'we are that', that is how we progress at the inside from the I to the We and then the next step is He. I went to Prashanti Nilayam and it was during singing, it was in the air as 'I am that' above another devotee and it that moment in my conscious feeling about it that expanded to 'all are that', and it was clear if all are that it is in fact, 'He is that', that experience was there because all are that it expanded to He. It is not just thinking that God is everywhere, it is by realization that we get to the Supreme Sweet Essence and that is also how we realize that it is He only and nobody else but He and that was the next step from We go He and that explains why he said from I to We to He. 

What people think about God is everywhere is the mind only, he is not in our imagination everywhere, he is in the heart and we need to realize that we are all one and the same, otherwise, it is not self-realization, but the mind only.